Ecological Literature And Elements Of Ecological Literature In Wolf Totem

Ecological literature refers to the literature that observes and demonstrates the relationship between human beings and nature. It is a literary phenomenon which sprouts,grows and prevails with human being's thoughts about the relationship between themselves and the nature's survivance crisis .In ancient society ,men experienced the struggle of thought and exploration, aiming at founding the relationship between themselves and nature. In their social practice of reformative management, there formed various plain ecological cultures.In modern society, thanks to the breakthroughs of technology and the development of industrial civilization, human become more and more powerful in the practice to dominate and reform nature such kind of"privilege"results in a state where the endless exploitation and destruction can not be controlled. In 1970s,human came to realize the importance of natural balance, which raised the tide of ecological thoughts. This period time also saw a prevalence of series of ecological literary works, which reconsidered the relationship, as well as,the harmony of interest shares between man and nature.Influenced by the world ecological literature, domestic ecological literature came into prosperity in the Chinese ecological crisis since the early 1980s. Ecological reportages, ecological fictions, and ecological proses have been playing an important part in exposing ecological crisis and appealing to ecological protection. Chinese ecological literature has obtained the gratifying achievement and has brought influence and social benefits. Numerous writers have already set foot in the new area of ecological literature .A lot of ecological writings came out. The rise of Chinese ecological literature theory and criticism has already attracted a group of readers who accept the literature form. In spite of exciting fulfillment, there still exists problems and difficulties that the ecological literature hasn't formed a great influence; it lacks writers with penetrating observation; the topics are still not wide enough,it ignored the connection of human themselves and their actions. Our vital mission nowadays is to widen the social benefits and aesthetic value of ecological literature.Although ecological literature has been a popular interest in literary realm, because of its short-term of rise and development, we have not got a complete system of ecological theory .Especially in the domestic, there's still no agreement on the definition of ecological literature. Therefore the background information of ecological literature's emerging and authoritative expounding of ecological literature, the paper got the definition; ecological literature is a literary form which is based on ecology overall principle theory, valued ultimately by the total interest in ecosystem, centering on the relationship between human and nature, studies the realistic and spiritual source of ecological crisis, appeals to the environmental protection, carries forward ecological duty, praises highly of ecology total perspective and advocates the harmonious co-existence of human and nature. The main characters of ecological literature are as following:1.to expose ecological crisis and the source.2.to reconsider the relationship between human and nature.3.to take the total interest of ecosystem as the toppest value choice.4.to advocate the harmonious co-existence of human and nature.On the basis of the induction concerning the intension and features of ecological literature, the paper makes an analysis on the elements of ecological literature in Wolf Totem(written by Jiangrong),further explaining the meaning of the literary form. Wolf Totem, through study, does not definitely from it. The piece of work exposes the case and social source of ecological crisis on the prairie, and expounds the theory of ecological total interest. The relationship between human and nature in this co-existence is analysed in many aspects, further providing human with constructive methods to contribute to the harmonious development. All these factors are in keeping with the characteristics of ecological literature. When the discussion evoked by Wolf Totem focuses mainly on the nature of a nation,the value of ecologist text of the work becomes ever prominent,when viewed from the perspective of ecological criticism. As an ecological literary work,the realistic significance of Wolf Totem can further be seen by analyzing thoroughly the group of characters in the work and exploring deep-goingly the plain ecological belief and the grassland-modes ecological ethics. The author enjoys experience to the nature to a deep extend, and has profound understanding and deep reconsideration to the ecology crisis. In his book he appeals that human establish and follow a kind of ethics which is based on ecology egalitarianism and ecology overall principle: treat natural myriad things equally, acknowledge the value and right of the natural myriad things. Human should perform the essential moral responsibility and duty towards the natural myriad things,and take maintain the complete, stable and beautiful ecosystem as the highest moral principle.The ecological literature is undertaking a special mission in the impetus of constructing harmonious society in practice, The ecological literature massively demonstrates fierce facts of ecological crisis, alerts people to the danger of ecological crisis through grave apprehension of it, touches people's soul, stimulates people's ecological awareness and drives people to go out of the narrow human center principle in order to found the base stone for the establishment of harmonious society. The ecological literature is concerned with reconsidering how the social, economical and technical development pattern causes the worsening of environment and ecological crisis, provides the spiritual support for the environmental science research, facilitates the governmental amendment and implementation of social development policy, especially environmental protection policy, and creates a better condition for the construction of the harmonious society. The ecological literature excavates the beauty of poetic sentiment from real life, eulogizes the glorious ecological image, demonstrates the ideal ecological society and creates good ecological atmosphere for harmonious society.